Zhuge Liang's eulogy in memory of Zhou Yu in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
Oh Gong Jin, unfortunately died young! Wouldn't it hurt people if they shorten the old heaven? You have a spirit, enjoy my taste! Use your talent to show off your talent, use civil and military strategies; defeat the enemy with fire, turn the strong into weak. I miss you when you were young, majestic and heroic; I cry that you died young and fell to the ground bleeding.
The sky is dark and the three armies are in despair; the Lord weeps; the friends weep. Liang is not talented, he begs for advice; helps Wu to resist Cao, assists Han to secure Liu; lends support to others, looks at each other from head to tail, and calls out to Gong Jin! Life and death will never be separated, my soul is like a spirit, to judge my heart: from now on, there will be no sound in the world! Oh, what a pain!
Extended information
Zhou Yu (175-210), courtesy name Gongjin, was born in Shu County, Lujiang (now Shu County, Hefei City, Anhui Province). A famous general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the son of Zhou Yi, the commander of Luoyang, his grandfather Zhou Jing, and his uncle Zhou Zhong, both of whom rose to the rank of Taiwei. The body is strong, the appearance is good, and the music is fine. There is a saying in Jiangdong that "If the music is wrong, Zhou Lang will take care of it."
Zhou Yu had a good relationship with Sun Ce. At the age of 21, he followed Sun Ce to the battlefield to pacify Jiangdong. Sun Ce was assassinated and Sun Quan succeeded him. Zhou Yu sent his troops to the funeral, leaving the Central Guard and Chief Shi Zhang Zhao in charge of everything. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 years), Zhou Yu led his army to join forces with Liu Bei and defeated Cao's army in the Battle of Chibi, thus laying the foundation for the "three-part world". In the 14th year of Jian'an (209), he became a partial general and became the prefect of Nanjun. He died of illness in Baqiu in the 15th year of Jian'an (210 years) at the age of 36.
Official history records that Zhou Yu had a "magnificent personality" and "a real genius". Sun Quan praised Zhou Yu for having "the qualifications of a king", and Fan Cheng praised him as "a heroic man in the world, a romantic and beautiful husband on the left of the Yangtze River". During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was honored as Pinglubo and ranked among the sixty-four generals of the Tang Wumiao Temple and the seventy-two generals of the Song Wumiao Temple.
In the third year of Jianzhong of the Tang Dynasty (782), Yan Zhenqing, the envoy of etiquette, suggested to Tang Dezong that 64 famous ancient generals should be honored and temples should be built in their honour. ". At the same time, only Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Deng Ai, and Lu Kang were included in the list of temple privileges.
In the fifth year of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty (1123), in accordance with the practice of the Tang Dynasty, temples were built for ancient famous generals. Zhou Yu was also among the seventy-two famous generals. Zhou Yu is also listed in the "Biography of One Hundred Generals in Seventeen Histories" written during the Northern Song Dynasty.
There are many tombs of Zhou Yu in China. According to the "Preface to the Poems under the Tomb of Zhou Gongjin" written by Liang Su of the Tang Dynasty and the "Wudi Ji" written by Lu Guangwei, Zhou Yu's tomb is located in Suzhou, "Zhou Yu's tomb is located two miles east of the county."
According to Lu You The "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty" written by Zhou Yu records that Zhou Yu's tomb is located in Suzhou. "Yu was buried in Susong, which means that the tomb is a shrine, and there are dozens of descendants living beside it."
References: Baidu Encyclopedia. Zhou Yu